Title
Executive Director
Institution / Organization
Asociación Columbus
Bio
Director of the Columbus Association, pioneering multilateral network of cooperation between European and Latin American universities, founded in 1987. Sociologist with postgraduate studies in Political Science at the University of Heidelberg. Founding Director of the Mario Boella Superiore Institute for Information and Communication Technologies and Director of Networking and Internationalization of the Fondazione Torino Wireless (Italy). Since 2009 he is a member of the Advisory Council of the Fundacion Conocimiento y Desarrollo, Barcelona. Since November 2011, he is as a teacher at the International MBA and the Executive Education program of HEC, Paris, working with senior management teams on issues of organizational development and strategy deployment, and on decision-making in complex situations. His most recent publications include: • Implementing Governance reforms: Policy games in European university systems, Co-autor, Revista de Educación. número 385, 2019, Madrid. • Ciencia Abierta: Reporte para tomadores de decisiones, Co-author. (Montevideo Office Regional Science Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1st edition 2018, 2nd edition 2019) • Governance Reforms in European University Systems: The case of Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Portugal; Co-author, Spinger, 2018 • University Management 2.0: a necessary debate, in collaboration with Michel Fiol, in CyD 2010 Report. Barcelona, 2011; revised edition: University Management 2.0: A Necessary Debate, in Leadership and Governance in Higher Education, a Handbook for decision Makers and Administrators, RAABE Verlag, Berlin, 2014.